Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The drunken King of Bunnah is making preparations for war upon the British. A great insurrection of Mohammedans against the Chinese prevails in Kashgar. Turkey has finally decided to cede Dulcigno to Montenegro, and the European fleet will go home. Owing to the insufficient supply of cereals in Russia, a movement is on foot to prohibit the exportation of grain from the empire. Melikoff, the dictator, is investigating the situation, and will act promptly. The managers of a Paris newspaper have been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The British troops operating against the Basuto.'i, in South Africa, are having a pretty lively time of it. One detachment has been corraled in a fort, losing its barracks, and another is cooped up some miles distant and living on horseflesh. A cable dispatch confirms the rumor of the marriage of the Czar of Russia with the Prin 'ess Do'jofouki. The Czar’s family disapproving, the Czarowitch went to Ilapsal, on the Esthouian coast. The Grand Dukes Constantine and Vladimir went abroad in order that they might not witness the ceremony. The marriage was very priva te. The completion of the great Cologne Cathedral was celebrated with great pomp in the city of Cologne on the 15th of October. Emperor William, Count von Moltke, ami numerous Princes and Princesses participated in the celebration. The Pope Ims summoned the Irish 'Catholic Bishops to Rome to take into consideration the disturbed condition of Ireland. A landlord named Hutchins was fired at near Skibberecn, Ireland. Hutchins escaped, but hi.i driver was shot dead. The Spanish Minister of Justice has informed the Papal Nuncio that any priest who alludes io politics in his.sermons will be expelled from Spain.

DOMESTIC "NTELLIGENOR.

Jiiasct. A Pittsburgh dispatch of the 12th says the deaths by the direful accident upon the Pennsylvania railroad now number twentyseven, argl eight or ten others arc not expected to survive. The whole city is in mourning, for many among the killed wore well known and widely connected. A man named Carson and two boys nqdertool: to go through a railroad tunnel near Huntington, Pa., and were struck by a passenger train and killed. A child 2 years old, of Elmira, N. Y., lias just died of hydrophobia. Thirty-two deaths have, resulted from the Pittsburgh railroad collision. Wright Smith, of Paterson, N. J., manufacturer of silk goods, has failed, with liabilities amounting to $250,006. Two boys, one 12 jmd the other 8 years of age quarreled nt Pembroke, Mo., about a cat, when the < Ider seized a gun ayd shot his little companion to death. He was-discovered by a neighbor in the act of burying the body of his victim. The “Ladies’ Deposit Bank,” of Boston, an institution managed by women, and which has been paying enormous rates of interest, has collapsed, and turns out to have been a swindle of gigantic proportions. The liabilities amount, to about $500,000, and poor women are the principal victims. The officers es the so-called bank, all of them women, have been arrested. Weit. A serious row occurred at Shelbyville, Ind.,, a day or two before the recent election, in which Sheriff McCorkle was killed. Two political meetings were held in the town, Republican and Greenback respectively. During the afternoon a number of altercations occurred between Democrats and Republicans, but without serious result. Subsequently a row took place in a saloon between Democrats and Republicans, and Sheriff McCorkle quelled the disturbance. Ho left the saloon and walked down the street with Ed Kennedy, a Republican who had been in the fracas, in charge. He advised Kennedy to go home, which the latter promised to do. At this time another general fight took place, and a number of shots were fired, ono of which struck the Sheriff in the breast, passed through the upper part of the left lung, resulting in his death. Four persons were killed by an accident on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, near Byron, 111. John Taylor has been elected President of the Mormon church, vice Brigham Young, deceased. The Nez Perces Indians of Oregon are again becoming troublesome. The Academy of Music, on Halsted and Madison streets, Chicago, has been partially destroyed by fire. Loss $45,000. Several firemen were severely hurt by the falling of the roof of the burning structure. A fire at Stanton, Montcalm county, Mich., destroyed the newspaper office of the place, C. D. Allen’s, Webber & Chapin's, W. H. Paine’s, J. H. Piersons’, and D. W. Gardner’s stores. The total loss is placed at $50,000. The insurance will scarcely cover half the loss. The stores destroyed were the principa l ones in the village. Five Detroit firemen were badly injured by an oil explosion inn burning building. Michael Carey, of Gratiot, Wis., died of grief within a few minutes after the death of his wife. Berry, the Indian Agent of Del Norte, Col., has been arrested for complicity in the killing of young Jackson, who was butchered by the Ute Indians. Warrants axe also out for the arrest of Hoyt, Holmes and Cline, of the United States troops. •Two men robbed a stage-coach near Del Norte, CoL, carrying away the mail and treasure-box. The horse distemper has made its appearance in Chicago in a mild form. Seven persons were killed and four seriously wounded, at Chicago, by the bursting of what is termed a “cooker.” in Haas Powell’s distillery. A fierce railroad war has been raging between the main lines running southwest from Chicago. The trouble was inaugurated by a cut in passenger rates between that city and St. Louis, on the part of the Wabash road. The Chicago and Alton at once assumed a belligerent attitude, and the cutting was kept up until fares between Chicago and St. Louis were reduced to nominally nothing, tickets being sold as low as 70 cents. Finally the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy roads became involved in the struggle, and limit.'d tickets between Chicago and Kansas City were sold lor 50 cents over all tour of the comjxjtiug lines. Thousands of un-

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limited tickets between Chicago and Kansas City were sold for $6, and between Chicago and St Louis for $5. The effect of the fight will be to permanently reduce rates between these points, and thus the people at least will be benefited by this fight The heaviest wind-storm experienced for many years prevailed throughout the Northwest on the 16th and 17th of October. The gale was particularly disastrous to shipping on the great lakes. Three or four vessels were wrecked in the vicinity of Chicago, and several lives were lost. Near the Manitou islands a barge, with all hands, was lost In the vicinity of Sturgeon bay, on the west shore of Lake Michigan, an immense amount of damage was done to shipping, no less than twenty vessels having been blown ashore. Old sailors say it was the worst storm they ever saw on Lake Michigan. The gale also swept over Lakes Superior and Erie, but the damage was light compared to that done on Lake Michigan. The storm was very violent along the line of the Southern Minnesota railroad, in Minnesota. Trains were blockaded by snowdrifts ten to twelve feet deep, and the passengers were only kept from starving by the arrival of teams with provisions. Cattle, horses, and other farm animals have perished in large numbers. In the Elkhorn valley, Neb., snow’ drifted to the depth of eleven feet, and railroads and stage routes were blockaded. Shipments of grain in bulk from St. Louis for foreign ports, from Jan. 1, 1880, to date, amount to 13,914,600 bushels, double the amount for the same period in 1879. At Centralia, lowa, a man named Kalb accomplished the feat of drinking three glasses of whisky in rapid succession, but died in ten minutes thereafter. Col. George Scroggs, proprietor of the Champaign (111.) Gazette, and fora time United States Consul at Hamburg, died a few days ago at Denver, Col., of comuniption. Mrs. Julia I). Bates, widow of the Hon. Edward Bates, United States Attorney General under President Lincoln, has just died at St. Louis. Bouta. The 150th anniversary of the settlement of Baltimore has just been celebrated with great pomp by the people of that city. The steamboat Joe Bryerly, from Shreveport for New Orleans, with 1,209 bales of cotton on board, burned near the mouth of the Red river. The Southern cotton crop lias suffered seriously, in consequence of the wet weather. Two lions escaped from their cage during a circus performance at Little Rock, Ark., creating the wildest consternation among the spectators, wiio were mostly negroes. The animals were recaged, however, before they did any damage. A fire on. the wharf at Charleston, S. C.. destroyed two or three cotton warehouses and one steamship, besides damaging a good deal of other property. The total loss is about $200,000 ; insured in foreign companies.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

It is said that Sccretaiy Schurz will decide to give St. Louis a new census enumeration for which it asks, although Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, is convinced that the enumeration just made is substantially correct.

POLITICAL POINTS.

A vigorous campaign with plenty of money and numerous speakers will be undertaken by the Republicans in Virginia. The division of the Democrats leads their opponents to hope for success. Congressional candidates will be run in every district, and perhaps two of them will be carried. We print below the electoral vote ot the different States of the Union : Alabama 10; Missouri 15 Arkansas <1 Nebraska 3 Ca’ifornia 0 Nevada 3 Colorado 3 New Hampshire 5 Connecticut 6 New Jersey 9 Delaware 3 New York 35 Florida .' 4 North Carolina 10 Georgia 11 Ohio 22 Illinois 21 Oregon 3 Indiana 15 Pennsylvania 29 lowa 11 Rhode Is'and 4 Kansas 5 South Carolina 7 Kentucky 12 Tennessee, 12 Louisiana 8 Texas 8 Maine 7 Vermont 5 Maryland 8 Virginia 11 Massachusetts 13 West Virginia 6 Michigan 11 Wisconsin , 10 Minnesota 5 ■ Miseiwippi 8 . Total 369 The number necessary to a choice is 185 During the passage of a Democratic parade in Wilmington, Del., it was fired upon from housetops, and six persons were seriously jvounded. The fire was returned and the building gutted, and several of the first assailants wounded. The Legislature of Oregon has adopted a resolution submitting the question of female suffrage to a vote of the people of the State.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Advices from the Arctic regions are to the effect that the revenue cutter Corwin has not yet found any trace of the missing exploring steamer Jeannette and the whalers. The Corwin has made several trips to Herald island, but has been unable to make a landing there, on account of the ico. Prof. Swift, of Rochester, has discovered a new comet. Official records show that 409 persons lost their lives by railroad accidents in New York State last year. Some 826 persons were seriously injured from the same cause. A horrible mine disaster has happened in Nova Scotia, whereby ten miners lost their fives. The water from a worked-out pit broke into the Ford, at Stillerton, drowning those in the mine. The bodies recovered were horribly mutilated. The revenue cutter Thomas Corwin has returned to San Francisco, after a long and fruitless cruise in the Arctic seas in search of the exploring steamer Jeannette. Her officers express the belief that the Jeannette wintered on the Siberian shore and is still there, but the Corwin could not get far enough west to verify this opinion. A shocking discoyery was made at St. Lawrence island, where it was found that 500 of the 700 inhabitants had died of starvation. Traders introduced whisky among the people, and the latter devoted their time to its consumption, neglecting to lay in their usual winter supplies of food. Wednesday, Nov. 3, is the Canadian Thanksgiving day. ' Two steamers brought to New York, ono day la. t week, $1,007,000 in gold and $15,000 in silver.

Cats.

In the middle ages cats, once the object of veneration in Egypt, were in France looked upon as satanic agents, and were burned alive. In Paris every St. John’s day a number of the abhorred animals were heaped up in baskets and bags in the Place de Greve, to afford an unto-da-fe, the sovereign himself setting fire to the pile.

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Nine Southern Governon Unitedly Indorse (Jen. Iff an cock’s Declaration Against Southern Claims—“No Legislation in Any Way Providing for the Consideration or Payment of Such Claims Ought to *be Approved by the President.” [From the Now York World.}On the 28th of September last the editor of the World addressed the following letter to each of the Governors of the States which, taken together, make up what it has become the fashion to call ths “Solid South:” September 28, 1880. My Dear Sir : I take the liberty of asking your co-operation in a measure which cannot fail, I think, at this stage of the campaign, to be of great and immediate benefit to the constitutional cause. The letter of Gen. Hancock, which I inclose, has had a most beneficial effect throughout the North and West— so beneficial, indeed, that the radicals ore trying everywhere to counteract it by a-serting that he will not be supported by the Southern people in the position which he has taken. Absurd as we know this assertion to be, it has some effect, not only upon the ignorant and prejudiced members of the radical party, but even, I am sorry to say, upon men who ought to know better. This being the case, it has occurred to me that a brief and outspokcq indorsi ment of Gen. Hancock’s position in regard to these alleged “rebel claims” by the leading men of the South would have a most important effect on public feeling just now. May I ask you, therefore, on receiving this letter, to telegraph to me, as early as possible, authority to sign in your behalf the following brief statement: “ The undersigned cordially agree with the Democratic candidate for the Presidency that ‘no legislation providing for the consideration or payment of claims of any kind for losses or damages by persons who were in rebellion, whether pardoned or not,’ ought to be approved by him if elected to the Presidency.” To this letter the following replies have already been received from the Governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee. The Governors of Florida, Virginia and West Virginia being now absent from their homes, their replies will be published when received. Gov. Hamilton and exGov. Carroll, of Maryland, like Senator Whyte, of the same State, an excellent letter from whom we append below, have cordially indorsed in like maimer the letter of Gen. Hancock, though Maryland is not, we suppose, included in the “ solid South ” by those who have originated and kept up the absurd bugbear which we now explode once for all : Columbia, S. C., Oct. 1, 1880. To the Editor of the World, New York : Your suggestion cordially approved. I entirely agree with the letter of Gen. Hancock on the subject of Southern claims of all sorts arising out of the war. Thomas B. Jeter, Governor of South Carolina. I cordially agree with the letter of Gen. Hancock. W. D. Simpson, Ex-Governor of South Carolina.

Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 1, 1880. The Democracy of Tennessee cordially and unanimously approve of the letter of Gen. Hancock concerning rebel claims. Albert 8. Mauks. Governor of Tennessee. Jackson, Miss., Oct. 2. 1880. I entirely agree with Gen. Hancock that no legislation favorable to Southern war claims should be approved by him as President. J. M. Stone, Governor of Mississippi. Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 2, 1830. The undersigned, Governor of Alabama, cordially agrees with Gen. Hancock that no Congress ought to enact and that no President ought to approve any legislation. providing for the consideration or payment of any claims of any kind for losses or damage incurred or sustained in the war between the States by persons engaged in the attempted secession of the Southern States, or in the effort to establish and maintain the Confederate Government. R. W. Cobb. Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 2, 1880. I cordially agree with Gen. Hancock that no legislation providing for the consideration of or payment of claims of any kind for losses or damages sustained by persons who were in rebellion, whether pardoned or not, ought to be approved by him as President. Thomas J. Jarvis, Governor of North Carolina. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 2. I cordially agree with the Democratic candidate for the Presidency on the subject of Southern claims arising out of the war between the States, that no legislation in any way providing for the consideration or payment of such claims ought to be approved by him as President. Alfred 11. Colquitt,' ‘ Governor of Georgia. New Orleans, La., Oct. 2. To the Editor of the World: Silt: I have received your dispatch of yesterday alluding to letter not received. Hie position taken by Gen. Hancock on the question of Southern claims is eminently correct, and is universally approved lure. My views have been fully expressed in a letter published by vou in the H'orfd of Friday, Oct. 1. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Louis A. Wiltz, Governor of Louisiana. Austin, Texas, Qct. 7. In answer I have to say that, sofarasl know, the people of the South have never expected any Southern claims f( r damages and Joss resulting from the late civil war to be paid. All that matter we consider ’to be settled. And so let it be 1 O. M. Roberts, Governor of Texas. Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 7. I cordially approve of the letter of Gen. Hancock in relation to Southern claims in any way arising out of the war between the States. William R. Miller, Governor of Arkansas. In connection with these plain and emphatic statements of the Executives of the Southern States the. World calls attention to the following not less plain and emphatic letters from leading senators’ of the South : Abingdon, Va., Oct. 6. To the Editor of the World : Sir: Gen. Hancock’s letter in regard to Southern war claims has my hearty approval. John W. Johnston, ' Senator from Virginia. Sumteb, S. C., Oct. 4. To the Editor of the World: Sir: I most thoroughly and cordially approve of Gen. Hancock’s letter in regard to Southern claims arising out of the war. Wade Hampton, Senator from South Carolina. Edgefield, S. C., Oct 5, 1880. To the Editor of the World: Sir: Gov. Hampton has conveyed to me your desire to know my opinion of Gen. Hancock’s position on “Southern war claims,” as expressed in his letter of a recent date. I was in hopes that the attitude of Southern Democrats generally toward this Republican bugaboo and the intelligence of the Northern Republicans would have made such an inquiry unnecessary. My information upon the subject of “ Southern war claims” is that, in the flush times of Republican supremacy, the only people who made anything out of them were Republican claims brokers, who plied their avocation at the Treasury Department, and Republican officials in the Treasury who were bribed by the brokers to pay them. Loyalty was supposed to be behind the hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of these so-called claims paid by Republican administrations, but there was generally about as much loyalty to sustain them as there was merit, and very small measure of either. • I think Gen. Hancock in his letter has expressed the sentiments of nine-tenths of the men of the South, and it has my hearty approbation. Southern men know what war means. ■ They know what defeat means, and they appreciate the consequences of defeat. They have no idea of making a raid on th treasury to pay “Southern wax claims,” or f«r any other purpose, and. what is more, they do not intend, as far as they can prevent it, to permit Republican “ bummers ”to do so. Perhaps it is the knowledge of this latter fact that brings so many tears of apprehension from the souls of the stalwarts. It is only necessary to refer to the files of the Democratic Congress to ascertain with what emphasis so-called “Southern war claims” hav< been condemned. A Democratic committee of

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 18S0.

THE SOLID SOUTH.

“A Finn Adherence to Correct Principles.”

a Democratic House at its last session buried scores of these “claims” in the “tomb of the Cannlets,” and many of the adverse reports were made by Southern men. Refer our stalwart friends to these adverse reports by way of quieting their apprehensions. Very truly yours, • M. C. Butler, Senator from South Carolina. Nashvtlle, Tenn., Oct. 6. To the Editor of The World: Sib : I fully and heartily, approve, in all its parts, of the manly letter of Gen. Hancock on the subject of Southern claims. The notion that the Government could ever put a premium upon acts menacing its own existence has never obtained a place in the minds of Southern Democrats. If such claims have ever threatened the treasury it has been under Republican policy and invited by Republican corruption and abuses. To single out individuals for payment out of the universal loss and wreck would nowhere be more unpopular than in the South. The masses of the Southern people are repairing the waste of the war, ana ■ the worse waste of misrule and of a narrow sectional policy. They are doing this by their own industry. Of the Government they ask only equal laws and a broad national policy.

J AMES E. BAILEY,

Senator from Tennessee. Baltimore, Oct 5, 1880. To the Editor of The World: Sir : I have given Gen. Hancock’s letter on “Rebel Claims” my warmest approval, as you will see from the report of my speech in Philadelphia on the 2d inst., which is inclosed. Yours truly, Wm. Pinckney Whyte, Senator from Maryland.

BUSINESS.

As Understood by Real Business IVlen —ls Cartield tbe Only Man Who Can Save the Country .’-And Is the Republican the Only Party Worthy of Confidence I—Here1 —Here Are Some Actual Business Men Who Answer Both Questions Decidedly in the Negative. The following address, signed by Levi Z. Leiter, of Field, Leiter & Co., Chas. Gossage, of Charles Gossage & Co., the two great dry-gOods houses of the Northwest; Cyrus H. McCormick, of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company; J. V. Clark, President of the Hibernian National Bank; Robert Law, the great coal merchant; Clinton Briggs, of the Crescent flour-mills ; W. C. D. Grannis, wholesale grocer; B. I Loewenthal, President of the International Bank; J. H. Prentiss, of Charles P. Kellogg & Co.,’and H. A. Kohn, of H. A. Kohn & Co., two of the largest wholesale clothing-houses in the United States ; John R. Walsh, of the Western News Company; Potter Palmer, of the Palmer House ; Conrad Seipp, proprietor of the mammoth Seipp brewery ; John W. Doane, of J. W. Doane & Co., J. K. Fisher, Francis B. Peabody, Best, Russell & Co., and other leading bankers, manufacturers, merchants and capitalists of Chicago, was printed in a late issue of the Chicago Times : To the People : A studious effort is being made to create an impression in financial, mercantile and industrial circles in Chicago and elsewhere that a change in the administration of the Genera] Government, by transferring its powers and duties from one of the two great political parties to the other, will check reviving confidence and prosperity, and bring untold financial disaster upon the country. This statement is so often repeated on the hustings and in the partisan press as to lead some thinking persons to believe that those who use this argument in behalf of the election of their candidate entertain a very contemptible opinion of the average intelligence of the business classes of the country. It is certainly an insult to their common sense to suppose that they can be made to believe that the Government is so weak that the mere transfer of power from one party to the other can have any such effect upon the business interests of the country. It is equally presumptuous to claim that the era of prosperity now opening throughout the land, from its center to its remotest extremities, is attributable exclusively to the Republican party, and the wisdom and purity of its several administrations. On the contrary, it is a historical fact that the worst and longest period of bankruptcy that has ever been experienced in the United States has occurred during the administration of the Government by the party now possessing its reins. Thousands of merchants who had passed unscathed through all previous panics went down in the crash of the last seven years, and their estates passed through the bankruptcy courts. Even- merchant knows the general causes which brought about this dire condition of things. General extravagance was a prominent ono. The chronic condition of poverty and distress in the South, continued and aggravated by local bad government and the diligent cultivation of hostility toward that section by venomous and unscrupulous politicians, whose continuance in power, depends upon keeping up such feeling in the North, w’as another. Widespread corruption in some of the departments of the General Government, especially in the bureau for the collection of internal revenue, which led to the debauchment of the public morals, was a third. The causes which have contributed most largely to restoration of confidence in business and the starting up of another career of prosperity are, in the first place, the general economy and industry, following the period of extravagance, imposed upon and practiced by the people, as evidenced, in part, by the large excess of exports over imports for the last five years. Secondly, the abundant crops with which kind nature has responded for several years past, wherever the soil has been tickled by the farmer; and the general failure of the crops in Europe, which created an immense demand for our cereals and provisions cf every kind, and brought us in return an abundance of gold. The prosecution and conviction in the courts of law of dishonest officials and other revenue rogues, thus restoring, in part, a healthy tone in the administration of one of the important branches of government, which had been partially paralyzed for years ; and, lastly, the restoration of honest local government in the Southern States, which has enabled the psople occupying those States to go to work, without disturbance from without or within, and raise in the past two years the largest crops ever known in the history of cotton-growirg ; and thus the immediate fruit of the conciliatory policy latterly adopted toward the South, and which policy is directly in harmony with that declared by Hancock and his supporters, has been not only to stimulate industry immensely down there, but to open once more another and very valuable market for the country, and especially for the Northwest, which is thereby adding' every day to its wealth. Hence the claim that the country owes its prosperity to the party in power, or that it will go to ruin if that party is turned out of power, is an audacious one, and an insult to the intelligence of every business man. It is the opinion of the undersigned, in common, as they believe, with a majority of the American people,Ahat a change of administration is desirable after the lapse of twenty years, even were the party wielding the powers of the Government less guilty of faults than the party now in possession appears tote It is time to take an account of stock by agents who have not been handling the trust many years. Levi Z. Leiter, Cyrus H. McCobmxcb, H. A. Kohn, Potter Palmeb, John R. Walsh, J. V. Clarke, B. Lowenthal, A. F. Sbkbebobb, D. A. Hewes, John H. Chas. Gossage, Clinton Bbioss, W. C. D. Grannm, H. D. Colvin, Lambert Tbke, Conrad Shipp, Robert Law, . Perry H. Smith, Francis B. Peabody, Best, Russell A Co., J. K. Fisher, Chas. Henbotin, Geo. L. Dunlap, W. D. Kerfoot, A. M. Watebbuby, M. W. Shebwin, John A. Kino, John W. Doane, J. H. McVickeb, Lucius B. Otis, Xavieb L. Otis, Fbedebick R. Otis. CtaiOAGO, Oct 9, 1880,

GEN. SICKLES ON HANCOCK.

A Clear Presentation of the Issnes of the Canvass—The Southern Claims Bugaboo. W. A. Fowler, Esq., Chairman Executive Committee, St James Hotel: Dear Sir: Business engagements that cannot be deferred will occupy my time

during the next fortnight, so that I am unable to make such appointments for public meetings as you propose. My impressions about the present canvass have been freely expressed to my friends, and may be summed up in a few paragraphs. I have always felt that whenever the Democratic party—North and South—frankly accepted the results of the war and nominated a candidate for President who was a firm and steady friend of the Union throughout the struggle, I could then, as a war Democrat, honorably resume my former political relations. The nomination of 1 Hancock, one of the most distinguished I leaders of the Union armies; his affiri mation of the inviolability of the war I amendments to the constitution; his : denunciation of the unlawfulness of all reclamations set up by those who took part in the rebellion ; the general favor his nomination has received in the Southern States—the ‘ ‘ solid ” support of the South given to a Union soldier—remove the causes which have for some time alienated me from my old political associates. I shall cheerfully unite with them now to promote the election of their worthy candidate. The people do not sympathize with the straggle of the leaders of the Republican party to "perpetuate their power. The earnestness of Dincoin, the strength of Seward, the enthusiasm of Sumner, the energy of Stanton are followed by the rivalries, jealousies and intrigues exhibited in the Chicago Convention. The patriotic zeal which animated these great men of the Republican party of the past seemed to have degenerated in their successors to a mere strife for patronage and place, and days were spent in bitter contention about candidates without presenting to the country any issue having a practical bearing on its welfare. The paramount question to be settled by the leaders at Chicago seemed to be the order of their succession to the Presidency. It is desirable that the inevitable change in the political control of the Government, which is no doubt imminent, shall take place under safe conditions. It is not to be supposed that any party can hold power indefinitely. The examples of our own and other countries show that an alternation of parties every few years is to be anticipated, and experience proves these periodical transitions to be wholesome and useful. Democratic control can be safely tried with Hancock. He will give us all the advantages without any of the risks of a change of administration. Republicans and Democrats who united with so much satisfaction in electing Gen. Grant do not seriously doubt the fitness of a soldier to fill the Presidential chair. The supporters of Gen. Hayes and the party that has now nominated Gen. Garfield and Gen. Arthur must have confidence in military men, unless it be suggested that neither Garfield nor Arthur have seen enough service to imperil our institutions by their martial proclivities. The country was never more fortunate than in the election of Gen. Jackson, the champion of the Union and of a sound currency, and of the independence of the Government from corporations, and who raised our young republic to the highest plane of national dignity and strength. Grant and Hayes and Garfield belonged to the gallant armies of the West. It is time that the army of the Potomac—the victors of Antietam, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and Richmond—should be remembered in the person of one of its greatest commanders. Five million votes will be cast for Gen. Hancock. He will have the suffrages of a considerable and influential part of the population of every State in the Union. And although the greater portion of his votes will come from the North and East and West, it will repreresent in the aggregrate every section and interest of a reunited country as they have not been represented by any Executive since the war. All parts of the Union should share the prosperity we now enjoy. There is no doubt that the political agitation in the South, growing out of apprehended interference in their local government, and absorbing the attention of the Southern people during the past fifteen years, has seriously retarded improvement in their condition. All such fears would be tranquillized by four years of Hancock’s conservative administration, and a general revival of enterprise, activity and thrift would be seen throughout the new South —the South of 1880—greatly to the advantage of the whole country. The North means to hold fast lo the results of the war. These are embodied in the recent amendments to the constitution. Gen. Hancock declares them to be inviolable. The South says, Amen. So be it. Let us make tliis a compact by electing Hancock, and so put an end to all further controversy about the fundamental questions settled by the war of secession. Let the decree be written in Hancock’s own words: ‘ ‘ When rebellion was crashed the heresy of secession in every form and in every incident went down forever. It is a thing of the dead past.’ - ' Neither party proposes any essential modification of the existing laws which have any relation to our present prosperity. In the manufacturing States both parties sustain a protective tariff. Louisiana has her sugar interests, Vermont and California their wool, Georgia and South Carolina their rice, Pensylvania her iron and coal, and indeed all the States have industries which thrive with the help of a protective tariff. Economical questions are not among the issues of this canvass. Republicans and Democrats are Greenbackers to the extent of $350,000,000 in Government paper now issued—no doubt Mr. Weaver would issue more, but it is not probable that any administration will issue less. Millions of silver, not used as currency, are accumulating in the treasury. No administration will stop this coinage. Both parties are divided in opinion as to the best course of policy to pursue toward the national banks, yet neither will disturb the present system. Mr. Bayard, the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, is a hardmoney man. Mr. Kelley, of Philadelphia, is a Republican-Greenback member of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives. Cameron and Wallace, the Senators from Pennsylvania (one a Democrat and the other a Republican), differ about most political questions, but they always unite in voting for a protective tariff. Mr. Randall, the Speaker of the present Democratic House, is a tariff man. Of the three principal Republican journals of this city, two disapprove the existing tariff and one adheres to a traditional support of the protective policy.

We may, therefore, safely assume that, as our prosperity is not the offspring ot either party, the success of one or the other candidate for the Presidency will have no influence on the causes that must augment our resources while we happily enjoy abundant harvests, sell our products at home and abroad and save a part of our income. All we need in the Executive is an honest and intelligent administration of the Government. It is a mistake to suppose that Gen. Hancock is without preparation or experience to qualify him for executive duties. No mail without administrative ability can successfully fill the great military offices Gen. Hancock has held during the past eighteen years. His present military jurisdiction embraces seventeen States—from Maine to Louisian&—and, whether commanding large forces in the field or dealing with the difficult questions incident to reconstruction in the South, or in restoring tranquillity to Pennsylvania, overrun by mobs and disturbed by riots, he has always shown the discrimination, discretion and tact which point out the man of executive capacity. At least it may be said that a stainless and successful career in the army affords as many guarantees for the faithful discharge of the functiofis of a chief magistrate as can be found in a long period of service in Congress, wuth its many temptations and frequent complications with the interests of corporations, contractors and jobbers. I am, sir, very respectfully,

14 Fifth Avenue, New Yobk.

“LET US HAVE PEACE.”

Grant the Citizen Versus Grant the Partisan. [From the Philadelphia Times. ] There are many intelligent citizens of all parties in the country who would regretfully accept the belief that Gen. Grant is, after ail his opportunities and distinction, no more than the flexible politician, who can change his opinions on great public questions with every presumed party necessity or every dictate of ambition. The whole nation heard his appeals for and assurances of sectional peace only a few months ago, when he returned from a protracted journey in the South, and the nation will now read with profound regret his awkward mid positive contradiction of himself. How Grant, the thoughtful and fearless patriot, answers Grant, the facile politician, may be seen by the fol- : lowing: i Grant’s Speech at Bloom- Grant’s Speech at Warren, : ington, 111., April 17, Sept. 28, 1880. 1880. I am a Republican, as It may be appropriate the two great political on this occasion to refer warties are now divided, to my trip through the because, the Republican Southern States, and to party is a national party, what I have seen while seeking the greatest good traveling. I have been for the greatest number of gratified at my reception citizens. There is not a in all the recently lebel- precinct in this vast naHoub States. I passed from tion where a Democrat Philadelphia to Florida on cannot cast his ballot and | my way to Havana, and have it counted as cast. I on my return came via No matter what the promTexas from Mexico, thus ineuce of the opposite passing through all thejparty he can proclaim his 'rebellious States, and it political opinions, even if will be agreeable to all topic is only one among a i know that hospitality was thousand,without fear and tendered me at every city without proscription on through which I passed, account of his opinions. 1 and accepted iii nearly aliiT/iere are/onrieen States i of them by me. The same and localities in some ether ■ decorations were seen in States where liepublicans every State that are seen have not this privilege. here to-night. The Union This is the reason why I /lag floated over us ever//-am a Republican. But lam u>/iere, and the eyes of the a Republican for many people in those States are as other reasons. The Ue'familiar with its colors aslpublican party assures yours, and look upon it protection tolifeandpropguarantecing to them aZ/jerty; the public credit the rights and privileges of and the payment of the a free people, without re- debts of the Government, gard to race, color, or pre- State, county or niuniaivious condition of servi- pality, so far as it can conI tude. In most of the trbl. The Democratic I States, upon the reception party does not promise ■ committees, side by side this. If it dees it hasbrokI were, men that . wore-the en its promises to the 1 blue and neu that wore extent of hundreds of I the gray, and reception millions, as many Northi addresses were made in ern Democrats can testify part by those who ivore to their sorrrow. | the blue and those who j wore the gray. We have ' no reason to doubt that : those who wore the gray, : tcill f til fill all they have I promised in loyalty to the I flag and to the nation. Nor was Gen. Grant alone in his party in declaring the madness of sectional strife a few months ago. Gen. Garfield, whose I election to the Presidency Grant ostensibly proposed to advance by his Warren i speech, thus spoke to the nation in the ; present Congress, when there were no i Presidential necessities to cloud his ; patriotism and statesmanship : So far as I have studied the current of public ' thought and of political feeling in this country, ! no feeling has shown itself more strongly than I the tendency of the public mind in the past few : months. The man who attempts to get up a [ political excitement in this country on the old 1 sectional issues will find himself without a party and without support. The man who wants to ' serve his country must put himself in the luie ; of its leading thought, and that is the restoraI tion of business, trade, commerce, industry, ! sound political economy, hard money and hon- ! est payment of all obligations ; and the man I who can add anything in the direction of the ■ accomplishment of any of these purposes is a I public benefactor. That Gen. Grant told the truth at Bloomington in April last, and that Gen. Garfield uttered the sincere belief of himself and of the country on the floor of Congress, is not doubted by any intelligent citizen. Why, then, must both assail themselves, dispute their own honest convictions, and declare their own teachings to be false, in the heat of a great partisan struggle ?

INTIMIDATION.

How Democratic Workmen Are Being Bulldozed by Eastern Manufacturers. [Philadelpha Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.] A wholesale plan of intimidation is in operation in this city among the manufacturers—many of whom depend on the South as a market for their goods, by which their employes are given to understand that their situations are at stake unless they vote for Garfield. Mills have been canvassed in some instances by authority of the proprietors, ostensibly for the sole purpose of making sure that all the hands would be duly provided with naturalization papers and taxreceipts, and this’ proceeding alone has been regarded by Democratic employes as signifying that if they set any value to their situations they would be expected to support the ticket of their political opponents. John Hackett, a foreman in Baeder, Adamson & Co.’s glue-works, has hired Democrats on condition that they vote the whole Republican ticket, has threatened the discharge of every man who brings “D d Democratic pamphlets” into the works, and has publicly declared that every employe, be he Republican or Democrat, who votes for Hancock shall be summarily discharged. The foreman of Thos. Dolan & Co. ’s woolen mills promised a competent Democrat mechanic employment, and when the man presented himself he was turned off with the curt remark, “We don’t want any Democrats here, and the few here we shall let slide one by one,”

In numerous instances, immediately after the conversation noted had been made, a partial shutting down has been ordered, and every man discharged has been a Democrat Republican millowners have furnished their employes with taxation on condition that they vote the Republican ticket, and have, on the same condition, procured naturalization papers gratis for persons not entitled to certificates of citizenship.

He Fitly Characterizes the Villainous Attempt to Steal His Laurels to Deck the Barren Brow of the Republican Candidate. Gen. Rosecrans has sent the following telegram from San Francisco to the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer: I will be obliged if you will smite the tripleheaded lie appearing in the Cincinnati Commercial of the 24th of September, about Gen. Garrield wilting all the orders issued at Chickamauga. None better than he knows that far the larger number were written—that all the written orders were at my dictation, of which his share was about fifty, Major Bond’s fifteen or twenty, and other aides and officers ten and lesser numbers each. Among Major Bond's was the order to which official villainy first affixed the word “fatal” as a part in its framework of gigantic calumny. It ought long since to have been buried with its author.

Indiana is unquestionably a Democratic State, and our friends must not be discouraged by a reverse which, in the nature of things, must be temporary. At the November election we shall not have to encounter the united strength of the whole Republican party, as we have in this election. In many of the Northern States the Republicans of those States will be fully employed at home. Philadelphia will need all her roughs and her repeaters, and the campaign fund must be divided between twenty commonwealths instead of being turned merely upon one. But, more important I still, we shall not have the fearful machinery of elections to contend with. There will not be imported into the State repeaters and illegal voters, and they protected by Deputy United States Marshals. We call upon our friends throughout the State to consider these plain facts, to take heart like men, and to stand to their arms. Let them move forward to the contest in November with an unabated courage, and an absolute assurance of the victory which awaits us if we do but prove true to ourselves and to our cause.— lndianapolis Sentinel. The effect of Ohio and Indiana in the October election upon the Democracy of the Union will certainly be as invigorating as the effect of Maine in September upon the Republicans. Four years ago the Democratic party lost Ohio and carried Indiana by only 5,000 votes, and still elected a President. The vote of Indiana is not needed to elect Hancock. The vote of Ohio was not expected in order to secure the election of Hancock. If Ohio and Indiana had voted for the Democratic ticket on Tuesday, the Presidential contest would have been ended by common consent. As they did not so vote, the November contest is still open. The Democratic managers East do not accord with the Democratic managers West. Maine and Ohio are recent illustrations. The Empire State furnishes a better illustration. New York was Democratic in 1868, when the passions of the war were hot. There is no doubt that the Democratic electoral ticket will be chosen in New York in November, and New Jersey will vote with New York. No Western .vote, however given, could affect this fact about the vote of New York. The Empire State, that voted for Seymour in 186 A, will vote for Hancock in 1880. New Jersey will vote with New York, and only three more electoral votes are needed to give the Presidency to the hero of Gettysburg.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

D. E. SICKLES.

Address of the Indiana Democratic Executive Committee.

To the Democratic and Independent Voters of Indiana : The result of tho election last Tuesday is a deep disappointment to us all. The extent of the success which the Republican party has achieved in this State is as much a surprise to the Republicans as it is to the Democrats, and proves that a majority of the Republican party were as ignorant of the means which their corrupt leaders were employing as we were. The temporary loss of our State is a calamity that time will enable us to retrieve, but the injury which our free institutions will sustain resulting from the frauds and corruptions practiced by the Republican leaders to secure their triumph is incalculable. The causes which enabled the Republican party to succeed are now plain. The partial success of their scheme to Africanize our State for political purposes ; the corrupt use of money for the purchase of votes ; the importation and use of repeaters protected by Deputy Marshals, and the aid derived by them from the use of the Federal machinery of elections, under the pretense of supervising the election of members of Congress. In the Presidential election, we will not have to encounter these forces to the same extent as in our State election. Their corruption fund will have to be divided among many States; their repeaters will be at home, and those of them who were discharged from the ar> est of Deputy Marshals on straw’ bail will not be likely to make their appearance in our State soon again. We shall have no Federal Marshals or Federal machinery to contend against. We are thoroughly united in our counsels. Whatever our adversaries may say to the contrary is untrue. We therefore call upon you not to relax any of your efforts. Put new life and energy into yonr county and township organization, and take all measures in your power to bring out your full strength to the polls. The same vote polled by us in October, if polled in November, will secure to us the State. The average majority against us at the late election will not exceed 4,000, and may fall below that figure. This majority can, and in our opinion will, be overcome in the Presidential election. A change of three votes will accomplish it. Remember, you have a leader in this contest who never sounds a retreat, and he commands an army that never surrenders. Wm. H. English, Franklin Landers, T. A. Hendricks, Wm. Fleming, J. E. McDonald, J. M. Cropsey, O. O. Stealey, Executive Committee. Jas. H. Rice, Secretary.

Gen. Hancock on the Tariff Question.

The following correspondence has been made public : Mobbibtown, N. J., Oct. 11, 1880. My Dear General : My attention is called to-day to an interview, or reported interview, had with you by a person representing the Paterson Guardian, of this State. As I read the report, it seems to me you were very imperfectly understood or very indifferently reported. I came to this conclusion because of my knowledge of your views upon the tariff question. The report does you injustice. The subject is one which our manufacturing friends are very solicitous about, and very properly so. I regret that your views upon the tariff question, as I understand them to be, had not found fuller expression in your letter of acceptance. If the misrepresentations of your tariff views continue, would it not be wise and justice to take some occasion to put yourself right? Very trulvyours, To Gen. W. S. Hancock, Governor’s Island.

$1.50 dot Annum.

NUMBER 37.

INDIGNANT OLD ROSY.

W. S. ROSECRANS.

No Clause for Discouragement.

ghmocrirtiq gtniaui JOB PRINTING OFFICE Km better (acilltiM than any office in Northwetter* Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB FBINTINTG. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prloe-TJct, or from I inmphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or fancy. oATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

Governor’s Island, N. Y., Oct. 12. My Dear Governor : I have received your favor of the 11th inst. In my letter of acceptance I expressed my full sympathy with our American industries. I thought I spoke plainly enough to satisfy our Jersey friends regarding the tariff views. lam too sound an American to advocate any departure from the general features of a policy that has been largely instrumental in building up our industries, and keeping Americans from the competition of the underpaid labor of Europe. If we intend to remain honest and pay the public debt, as good people of all parties do, and if we mean to administer the functions of the Government, then we must raise revenue in some way or other. With a reunited and harmonious country we shall certainty in time pay off the public debt, but the necessity of raising money for the administration of the Government will continue as long as human nature lasts. All parties agree that the best way for us to raise revenue is largely by the tariff. So far as we are concerned, therefore, all talk about free trade is folly. But the tariff question will probably be treated with justice to all our interests and people by some such bill as Eaton’s. I believe that a commission of intelligent experts, representing both the Government and American industries, will suggest tariff measures that will relieve us of any crudities and inconsistencies existing in our present laws, and confirm to us a system which will be judicious, just, harmonious, and incidentally proj tective as well as stable in its effects. I am,

very truly vours.

The Hon. Theodore Randolph, Morristown, N.J.

Address of the National Democratic Committee.

To the Democratic and Conservative Voters of the Country: The election of President and Yice President is now before you. State and local dissensions are eliminated from the issues of the day. The magnitude of a victory or defeat cap only be estimated by the forces and means employed in securing it. By fraud and corruption the people of the country were defeated in their purpose in 1876, and the right-fully-elected President was kept from office. With the combined capital of the Republican party, aided by repeated assessments upon an army of officeholders, with the power of the Federal Government represented by United States Marshals at the polls, with intimidation, fraud, and a resort to every corrupt appliance known to Republican methods concentrated in two States, our adversaries have succeeded in procuring the probable return of their local candidates. Can it bo possible that in every State throughout this broad land tho same methods can be brought to bear that were used by the Republican managers in Indiana and Ohio ? Can the great States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Colorado, Nevada "and New Hampshire be bought, intimidated, and defrauded? Even without the vote of Indiana, which we believe will be redeemed in November, with New York, New Jersey and the States that are conceded to us, including Maine, the election of our candidate is assured. The Republican party have put in nomination for President and Vice President two men who, by the admission of their own party and press, are unworthy of your confidence and your suffrages. It is impossible that fifty millions of intelligent and patriotic people will consent to place themselves upon tho humiliating level thus prepared for them by tho Republican managers. Fellow-citizens, the first day’s repulse at Gettysburg ended on the third, with Hancock in the front, in a glorious victory. That victory secured us out Union. Tho question is not now the preservation of the Union, but of constitutional government. Hancock is now, as then, in the front. The repulse is now, as then, tho omen of a victory which will secure to coming generations the inestimable blessings of civil liberty. By order of the National Democratic Com-

WILLIAM H. BARNUM,

mittee,

THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

Indiana. Indianapolis, Oct. 15. Returns have been received from all but seven counties, which give Mr. Porter 29,749 majority, and Mr. Landers 22,860, leaving a net majority of 6,889. The missing counties gave a net Democratic majority in 1876 of 1,556, which will reduce Mr. Porter’s majority to 5,323, unless tho Republicans make gains, which is not unlikely. The National vote will aggregate not to exceed 11,000 or 12,000, a slight falling off from the vote of 1876. So far as known, tho Republicans have elected fifty-seven Representatives and sixteen Senators. These, with the nine Senators holding over, give fourteen majority on joint ballot, securing a United States Senator in place of McDonald, and guaranteeing a safe working majority in each house. Indianapolis, Oct. 16. Returns from all the counties in tho State, except Ripley, give Porter 6,834 plurality. Ripley gave a Democratic majority in 1876 of 225. Full returns from tho Fifth Congressional district give C. C. Watson, Democrat, 881 majority, leaving the Congressional delegation eight Republicans and five Democrats. Ohio. Columbus, Oct. 14. At tho Republican headquarters special telegrams have been received from the Chairmen of the committees in all but eight counties of Ohio, showing complete returns on Secretary of State and Supreme Judge. According to returns from these eighty counties on vote for Secretary of State, the Republican gains are 7,905, and the Democratic gains are 5,657. Not Republican gain over Foster’s plurality of 17,129 last year is 2,248. Tho not Republican gain bn Supreme Judge is 4,448. The counties yet to hear from are Brown, Licking, Lucas, Ottawa, Perry, Pickaway, Ross, and Sandusky. Partial returns from Ross and Lucas show considerable Republican gains. The Republican oemmittee ■ concludes from the above figures that Townsend’s majority for Secretary of State will be close to 20,000, and Mcllyainc's plurality for Supreme Judge will be nearly 22,01X1. No figures have been received showing the majorities given for Congressmen, but enough is known to make the committee feel sure that the Republicans have elected fifteen out of twenty Congressmen. At the Democratic headquarters there are returns from seventy counties, and these, the Democratic committee say, show a net Democratic gain of 1,573 on Secretary of State over Foster’s vote. They say that the same rat io will show a net gain on the State of 2,002. Tins committee concedes the election of fifteen Republican Congressmen. The delegation to the next Congress will stand as follows : First district, Ben Butterworth : Second. Thomas L. Young; Third. Henry L. Morey; Fourth, Emanuel Shultz ; Fifth, Ben Lefevre ; Sixth, Joseph JV. Ritchie ; Seventh, John P. Leedom; Eighth, J. W. Keifer; Ninth, J. S. Robinson ; Tenth, John B. Rice ; Eleventh, Henry 8. Neal; Twelfth, George L. Converse ; Thirteenth, Gibson Atherton ; Fourteenth, George W. Geddes ; Fifteenth, Rufus R. Dawes; Sixteenth, J. P. Updegraff; Seventeenth, W. McKinley, Jr.; Eighteenth, A. 8. McClure; Nineteenth, Ezra B. Taylor; Twentieth, Anios Townsend. The districts in which the Democrats elect are tho Fifth, Seventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth. Columbus, Oct. 15. Returns, official and reported, are nearly all in, and show a Republican majority of about 18,000. Twenty-three Democratic counties show a Democratic gain, and seventeen ReSublican gain, but Republican greater than democratic. Following are unofficial majorities of Congressmen, so far as obtained : First ' district, Butterworth, Rep., 1,302; Second district, Young, Rep., 1,007; Third district, Morey, Rep.. 904; Fourth district, Schultz, Rep., 350; Sixth district, Ritchie, Rep., 694; Eighth district, Keifer, Rep., 5,900; Ninth district, Robinson, Rep., 1,100; Tenth district, Rice, Rep., 1.389; Eleventh district, Neal, Rep., 2,300; Thirteenth district, Atherton, Dem., 2,700; Fifteenth district, Dawes, Rep., 542; Twentieth district, Townsend, Rep., 5,244. Columbus, Oct. 16. Unofficial returns have now been received from all the counties of Ohio, which show that Townsend’s majority for Secretary of State is 18,928. Tho average majority for all other candidates on the Republican ticket will be fullv 20,000. The Paris authorities are intent just now on measures to prevent deleterious articles finding a sale, and have seized American hams wrapped in a yellow cloth, rendered impermeable by' chromate of lead.

W. S. HANCOCK.

Chairman.